We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Some of the most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the Barracuda support, the easy-to-use console, and the granularity of the reports."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"There are some vulnerabilities that are reported across the tools offered by Barracuda for some devices, which need to be taken care of from an improvement perspective."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"One of Barracuda's limitations is its user interface. The GUI for configuration is not intuitive and has remained largely unchanged for the past 10 to 12 years."
"An area for improvement in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is attack identification. Other banks identified attacks and tracked logs that the solution wasn't able to identify because of its ready-made rules pre-deployed by the vendor. My organization raised this issue with the technical support team. Another area to improve in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its service desk. The team resorted to stonewalling because they couldn't accept that a feature was missing in the solution, and it was only after a lot of drilling down that the service desk team accepted that, and would be adding that feature in the future. My organization had to submit a report to the Reserve Bank of India with information on the logs identified and the attacks that happened, and that there was a failure on the part of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Reserve Bank of India conducts a tri-monthly cyber risk audit in all Indian banks. Even smaller banks identified and caught attacks that my organization wasn't able to do, so I was looking into other solutions that competitor banks could be using because Barracuda Web Application Firewall failed to identify some of the attacks."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and AWS WAF, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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